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Author: Simone de Beauvoir Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062566172 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
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“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —New York Times A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Beauvoir vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062566172 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —New York Times A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Beauvoir vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.
Author: Bright Summaries Publisher: BrightSummaries.com ISBN: 2806279755 Category : Study Aids Languages : en Pages : 27
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir, which tells the story of the author’s childhood in middle-class society and her drive to be educated and exceed what is expected of her. The autobiography details the reality of everyday life for middle-class women during the early 20th century, who were denied adequate education or the freedom to make their own choices. De Beauvoir has received numerous awards for her works, as well as having an international human rights prize for women’s freedom named in her honour. Find out everything you need to know about Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Author: Beauvoir Simone De Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0141185333 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Simone de Beavoir describes her early life, from her birth in Paris in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul sartre - 'the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen'.
Author: Elizabeth Fallaize Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415147033 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 222
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Simone de Beauvoir was a prolific writer and feminist, whose name has attracted a volatile mix of adulation and hostility. This collection of critical responses to a wide range of Beauvoir's writing explores the changing perceptions of the woman and explores why her work remains influential today.
Author: Sylvia Lawson Publisher: UNSW Press ISBN: 9780868405773 Category : Australian essays Languages : en Pages : 228
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Sylvia Lawson moves the essays and stories in this collection through settings in and out of Australia - across Paris, West Papua, Britain, Indonesia - listening to the distinctive local voices from our cultural margins and reclaiming concerns the metropolitan centre ignores.
Author: Annabel Abbs Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1529324742 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 213
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The story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild. 'Moving and memorable' Virginia Nicholson, author of How Was It for You? 'A triumph ... I felt as though I were being lifted, carried up to peaks' Charlotte Peacock, author of Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd 'A beautiful and meditative memoir' Publishers Weekly For centuries, the wilds have been male territory, while women sat safely confined at home. But not all women did as they were told, despite the dangers; history reveals women for whom rural walking became inspiration, consolation and liberation. In this powerful and deeply inspiring book, Annabel Abbs uncovers women who refused to conform, who recognised a biological, emotional and artistic need for wilderness, water and desert - and who took the courageous step of walking unpeopled and often forbidding landscapes. Part wild-walk, part memoir, Windswept follows an exhilarating journey from Abbs's isolated, car-less childhood to her walking the remote paths trodden by extraordinary women, including Georgia O'Keeffe in the empty plains of Texas and New Mexico, Nan Shepherd in the mountains of Scotland, Gwen John following the Garonne, Simone de Beauvoir in the mountains and forests of France and Daphne du Maurier along the River Rhone. A single question pulses through their walks: How does a woman change once she becomes windswept?
Author: Toril Moi Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199238715 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 363
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For the second edition of her landmark study of Simone de Beauvoir, Toril Moi provides a major new introduction discussing current developments in Beauvoir studies as well as the recent publication of papers and letters by Beauvoir, including her letters to her lovers Jacques-Laurent Bost and Nelson Agren, and her student diaries from 1926-7.
Author: Penny Forster Publisher: ISBN: Category : Feminism Languages : en Pages : 168
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"Simone de Beauvoir was among the foremost French intellectuals of her time. Her remarkable autobiography, published in fours volumes throughout her life; and above all her classic feminist test 'The Second Sex', published in 1949, were all enormously influential in the development of modern feminist thinking. Her lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre assumed an almost mythical quality for those who aspired to its independent free spirit. Yet her rigid Catholic upbringing, her ambivalent relationship with her mother and worship for her father; together with her devotion to Sartre and belief in his 'greater genius' , may serve to highlight the paradoxes of this great writer who inspired so many and who succeede in envoking a uniquely intimate realtionship between herself and her readers. In this lively volume, based on a highly-acclaimed flim made by Penny Porster and Imogen Sutton for the BBC series 'Bookmark' eleven women discuss the influence that de Beauvoir's life and work has had on them, on their generation and on younger women today." --Jacket.
Author: John Hellman Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN: 0889201218 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 120
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“The generation of 1930 in French intellectual life was unique in the gravity of the challenges they faced.” Simone Weil — the brilliant social and political theorist, activist, and spiritual writer — was one of an eminent company in the France of the 1930s who responded to these challenges. In her brief, remarkable life she wrote a host of essays and letters and filled several notebooks with reflections. Hellman’s volume sets out the single world view — with its paradoxes and its logics — which appear behind her disparate writings but which she never lived to set out formally herself. Hellman extracts the key themes in Weil’s writings on Marxism, Hitlerism, factory work, history, and religion, in an effort to examine the seeming contradictions and inconsistencies in her fusion of deep spirituality and commitment to the poor and oppressed and her love-hate relationship with Roman Catholicism and Israel. The result is a synthesis of her thought as a whole, drawn principally from her varied, fragmentary writings, and seen in relation to her life and personality.
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